Bug Description

"3 finger pinch to maximize/restore windows" and "3 finger press and drag to move window" used to work on my Asus X201E on 12.10, but not after upgrading to 13.04. All other gestures mentioned in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Multitouch#Supported_Gestures, including four finger ones work.

Note: three finger move and resize gestures do still work on the touchscreen device (the Atmel maXTouch Digitizer) but the Elantech touchpad is the device that doesn't seem to register all of the gestures anymore.

Same here on a Macbook Pro 8,2. Though, I must say that the 3-finger gesture never was too smooth (always sent my windows flying too fast).

I would much prefer to have 3-finger being a drag and drop gesture (for moving files, selecting text and moving windows as usual - by dragging the title bar) and 4-finger moving between desktops same as in OS X, as it feels more natural and results in less disruption when accidentally brushing the touchpad with an additional finger. See also Bug #1094389 for other Mac-related touchpad issues.

On 05/16/2013 04:32 PM, Sigurdur Rafn wrote:
> This must be some misunderstanding, touchpads are always getting bigger
> and more powerful and such multi-touch features are expected in a modern
> OS. Removing these features must be some mistake...
>
>
> Has anyone found a hack to reenable this manually?
>

"The 3-finger and 4-finger gestures now only work with a touchscreen."
First of all, not true. 3 and 4 finger gestures still work with touchpads. I am using them all the time. Only 'some' gestures don't work. Why this selective removal, was it part of the 'design'?
Secondly, I do not understand what harm the gestures on touchpad were doing, that you had to remove them 'by design'?
Thirdly, why does Unity need to hard code the gestures? One can't even use touchegg without recompiling unity.

Moral of the story, my excellent Asus touchpad deserves better. I am moving to KDE to use touchegg.

I really don't understand this decision. When having a powerful touchpad, why not use its full capacities ??? Moreover, I can GUARANTY you that since this feature has been "fixed"...I'm much less productive.

At least, maximize/minimize is mandatory. That was an awsome feature that I loved in 12.10.

On 05/30/2013 12:17 PM, Stefan Skotte wrote:
> What the heck ? I used the three finger move windows all the time - and
> I dont really plan to have a touchscreen...
>
> Jeeeez... Get this feature back !
>
LIKE

This post, show how we can disable Unity default multitouch gestures and
bring in Ubuntu 13.04 like touchpad gestures.

General idea:
1. We have to disable multitouch gestures form unity, because Gesture support in Unity using touchpads was removed by design. The 3-finger and 4-finger gestures now only work with a touchscreen.
(see http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1172172)
2. Install touchegg for multitouch gesture
3. Fix some issues to get touchegg works fine.

edit file /tmp/unity/unity-*/plugins/unityshell/src/unityshell.cpp
and locate the method UnityScreen::InitGesturesSupport() (line 3381 for Unity 6.10.0, line 3287 for Unity 7.0.0), we comment all the lines starting with gestures_.

Hey Graham, please be considerate of others if you want to participate in
these discussions. There are polite ways to express your opinion. We should
all abide by the code of conduct.
Dana 29. 12. 2013. 10:55 osoba "Graham Carroll" <email address hidden>
napisala je:

It's unbelievable that 4 iterations later and this still isn't an option
yet despite the numerous amounts of requests....If a feature is to be
disabled that used to exist and was used for productivity purposes it makes
sense to always keep it an option to not hinder the productivity of the
users who were utilizing it before!

Its completely absurd that this was abitrarily removed and restricted to touch devices. touchpads are not going away any time soon and modern touchpads have great gesture support that ubuntu is failing to utilize.